carnivores dataset

Brain and body mass for carnivore species

Data on mean brain and body mass for 199 species from the carnivora. data

data("carnivores")

Format

A data frame with 199 observations on the following 7 variables.

• Binomial: binomial species name
• order: order name
• family: family name
• genus: genus name
• species: species name
• Mean_brain_mass_g: mean brain mass for that species in g
• Mean_body_mass_Kg: mean body mass for that species in Kg

Source

Burger, Joseph Robert; George, Menshian Ashaki; Leadbetter, Claire; Shaikh, Farhin (2019), Data from: The allometry of brain size in mammals, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2r62k7s

References

Burger, J.R., George, M.A., Leadbetter, C. & Shaikh, F. (2019) The allometry of brain size in mammals. Journal of mammalogy, 100, 276-283.

Examples

data(carnivores)
str(carnivores)